Allie Baczynski is an organic geochemist interested in using the chemical signatures of biomarkers derived from ancient plants to reconstruct past landscapes and climate. She is currently a post-doctoral scholar at Penn State working to lower biomarker sample size requirements for isotope analysis. Today, the Bighorn Basin in north-central Wyoming is mostly badlands – dusty hills home to […]
Author: Christopher Spencer
The largest Neapolitan eruption with Claudio Scarpati
Claudio Scarpati is currently aggregate professor of Physical Volcanology and Volcanology at University of Napoli Federico II (Italy) and a visiting professor of Volcanology at Brigham Young University (USA). Using a series of detailed case studies Professor Scarpati’s research centres around identifying and quantifying the processes involved in explosive volcanism. His main research interests include: evaluation of […]
Road trip through south-western USA with Graham Pritchard, pt. 3
This is part 3 of 3. You can read part 1 here and part 2 here. Probably the best field trip* in the world ever! (*and it wasn’t even a field trip) Part 3 of 3: Yosemite to Las Vegas Two years ago we decided, as a family, […]
Road trip through south-western USA with Graham Pritchard, pt. 2
This is part 2 of 3. You can read part 1 here. Probably the best field trip* in the world ever! (*and it wasn’t even a field trip) Part 2 of 3: Los Angeles to Yosemite It was two years ago that we agreed to have an extra-special […]
Road trip through south-western USA with Graham Pritchard, pt. 1
Graham is a petroleum geologist working for a small oil & gas company based in London, UK. Having completed a BSc in Geology at Exeter University in 1985, Graham has spent much of the last 30 years working on the prospectivity of many areas, including the UK & Ireland, North Sea, much of mainland and […]